[PLUG] Troubleshooting Printing Problem

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Thu Oct 4 18:29:52 UTC 2007


On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>
>> If you open your browser to http://localhost:631/printers/ (the 
>> CUPS web interface), can you see your printer?
>
> Paul,
>
>   I forgot about that. Yes, all printers are visible. The two to 
> which I had sent jobs show:
>
> "Network host 'lj5' is busy; will retry in 25 seconds..."
>
>   Printing a test page from this web page also fails.

To avoid a ton of troubleshooting, I'd suggest deleting your current 
printer definition and recreating it from scratch. It's not the Linux 
way, but CUPS just annoys me...

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com



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